Used properly LinkedIn is an incredibly powerful professional networking tool that can significantly improve your ability to find a fitting employer and for them to find you. But, like social-media it’s only as good as the effort you put in. Do you keep it as up to date as you should? Do you simply go on occasionally and congratulate peers who are nailing the jobs you wish you had? Are you using it at all?
At Melbourne Resume Writers, we believe that even if you are content in your job, you should always be keeping abreast of your industry trends, the jobs those in your sector are securing and making sure that people who are in a position to influence your career are aware of your achievements.
LinkedIn fulfils all of these criteria and once you get into the habit of visiting the site regularly, you will find it an invaluable resource and part of your armoury of career-enhancing tools. There are various ways to utilise the site to suit your requirements. A good tip is to see who views your profile. This is a great way to see how you are positioning yourself in the marketplace and may give you the impetus to look at industry sectors you had not previously explored.
We’ll take a look at your existing profile (or help you create a new one), and bring it up to speed – populating all the fields and making sure your job skills (up to 50!) are emphasised. These are critically important as these skills are one of the keys ways that potential employers will find you. Once your profile has been prepared, we will give you the tools to help you keep it updated. We find that many people simply make a profile then adopt a reactive attitude to the site, looking at it every so often to see who’s doing what, congratulating friends and peers and so on.
But by making the simple change to being proactive and extolling your achievements to an audience of industry peers can have a remarkably transformative effect, sparking conversations that could lead in exciting new directions.
So why not unlock your full potential and allow Melbourne Resume Writers to make your LinkedIn profile one way in which you can take a step in reinventing your professional profile to reflect all its possibilities?
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